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Conner Insurance Among Healthiest Employers
The team at Conner Insurance is proud to share that we’ve been named a finalist for 2019 in the Healthiest Employer of Indiana Awards program, a nationally-recognized awards program powered by the Springbuk Health Intelligence Platform! As previous finalists, our team felt confident that our wellness-oriented culture and commitment would stand apart among Indiana employers, […]
How Broken Promises From Health Insurance Brokers Make it More Difficult for the Rest of Us
BY BEN CONNER I recently met with a prospect. Sitting down in his office, I couldn’t help but notice his body language: He avoided my eye line. He kept his arms crossed. His handshake was quick and formal, as if he couldn’t wait to get the meeting over with. It struck me then that this […]
Knowledge is Power: Making Better Benefits Decisions
BY RYAN SPENCER The traditional model of purchasing health insurance is harmful to the very companies buying the plans. When it’s time for a business to renew, the tendency is to shop around with a couple of new carriers, focusing on some sort of balance between price and coverage—two topics that insurance companies rarely go […]
Matching Benefits With Your Workforce
BY BEN CONNER Your workforce is entirely unique. Regardless of where you’re located or which industry you’re in, you won’t find an exact duplicate of your team. Because of this, your personnel also have their own unique wants and needs when it comes to health care. It doesn’t make sense to purchase a cookie-cutter benefits […]
Purchasing Coalitions: Limit Expenses By Spreading Risk
BY RYAN SPENCER For small to mid-sized employers, acquiring benefits can be an expensive endeavor. With only a few people on staff, the business has limited negotiating power, and a single individual with cancer or another major illness can significantly increase the rates for everyone on the plan. In the worst conditions, these businesses could […]
Fixing the Health Care Value Chain
BY BEN CONNER Health care is unlike anything else we purchase. When we buy groceries, for example, the price of each item is listed right there on the shelf. When we’re finished paying, we receive a slip of paper with an itemized list of everything we purchased. There’s never any question what it was going […]
How to Turn Health Care into a Variable Cost
BY RYAN SPENCER Each year, companies all over the country allow the price of their benefits to increase. Though they may not like it, they accept their benefits package as a resource that’s bound to rise in price. But these same companies would fight tooth and nail if their rent or office supply costs increased […]
The Human Side of Ongoing Engagement
BY BEN CONNER Health insurance should be designed to solve problems and unlock new business opportunities, both for employers and employees—regardless of whether everyone thinks about it this way. On the employer side, health insurance should be cost-effective and protect the company’s most valuable resource—its people. In turn, this should improve retention rates by strengthening […]
Health Insurance Results Matter, And You Should Demand Them
BY RYAN SPENCER My two-year-old daughter has a stockpile of toys adorned with flashing lights, buttons, and speakers. When a toy inevitably breaks or runs out of battery, she casts it aside. Like many of us, she only wants to play with the toys that light up the most. In the health insurance industry, we […]
Cancer Tops List of High-Cost Insurance Claims for Self-Insured Employers
BY Katie Kuehner-Hebert Considering that more than a third of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime, and injectable drugs for cancer are among the most expensive partly due to lengthy treatments, it’s no surprise that cancer continues to be the costliest stop-loss claim for self-insured employers, according to the 2019 Sun […]
